My Own Side

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” - Robert Frost

October 11th, 2006

Dog of the Week #8

I was in the arena at a horse show when I suddenly realized that several people on the side were yelling at me to attract my attention. I looked over and they were waving me over with their arms to come and take a picture of Barb’s dog in the parking lot. She had been told to stay in the truck, and technically she was obeying, at least halfway!

October 11th, 2006

Spamming for Peace

Ever wonder what lefties do when they aren’t out pushing their 9/11 conspiracy theories or having another BDS attack? Apparently they spam blogs.

I got the following spam comment this week.

Do-It-Yourself Impeachment Due this Thursday!!! (Oct 12)

The day the nation demands impeachment is almost upon us. This coming Thursday (Oct 12), sacks and sacks of mail will arrive in congress demanding impeachment via the House of Representative’s own rules. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).

There’s a little known and rarely used clause of the “Jefferson Manual” in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.

That’s where we come in. In addition to the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org, part of the movement to impeach the president, has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.

STOP WAITING FOR YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ACT FOR YOU.

You can initiate the impeachment process yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information in the blanks (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in.

http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

More information on the precedent for submitting an impeachment
memorial, and the House Rules on this procedure, can also be found at
the above address.

If you have any doubts that Bush has committed crimes warranting
impeachment, read this page: http://ImpeachForPeace.org/evidence/

If you’re concerned that impeachment might not be the best strategy
at this point, read the bottom of this page: http://ImpeachForPeace.org

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
Bush, June 18, 2002

“War is Peace.”
Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984

Is it just me, or does this smack of desperation? Although I hated to give it any more prominence, I wanted to let sane people see what the latest attempt is to drag down our president. Reading through the site, they are making the tenuous claim that the method used for the impeachment of a judge in 1830 is a viable method for the impeachment of a sitting president today. The judge was acquitted, by the way.

I support free speech, but having the right to free speech does not mean that you have the right to infringe on the rights of others. Shame on this group for spamming blogs with their trash, and here is what I say back:

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